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A conversation with Board Chair Ramanan Raghavendran
Ramanan Raghavendran engages in conversation at a conference table.

University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees Chair Ramanan Raghavendran.

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  • Q&A

    • A conversation with Board Chair Ramanan Raghavendran

    One year since becoming the Chair of the Board of Trustees, Raghavendran discusses Penn’s advancements from the past year, the purpose of a values statement, and Penn’s strengths as a cultivator of American leadership.
    Perry World House student fellows explore global policy solutions
    A group of students sits around a rectangular table in a discussion. A man stands next to a pad of paper on an easel preparing to take notes.

    A team of Perry World House Student Fellows discuss actions and policies during the 2024 crisis simulation at Perry World House, facilitated by Tom Ellison (standing), deputy director of the Center for Climate and Security at the Council on Strategic Risks.

    (Image: Courtesy of Perry World House)

    Perry World House student fellows explore global policy solutions

    Through global trips and weekly seminars, the program centers students’ interests in global policy to help solve real-world problems, and the students gain one-of-a-kind experience along the way.
    The law in the 19th-century American South
    A historic photo of someone cutting the grass of a plantation in the Antebellum South.

    Image: Courtesy of Picryl

    The law in the 19th-century American South

    Madison Ogletree, a McNeil Center for Early American Studies Consortium Dissertation Fellow, explains her deep dive into law and the everyday lives of free African Americans in rural areas of the slave South.

    From The McNeil Center for Early American Studies

    Penn’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service
    An image of the Hall of Flags looking down at round tables crowded with people

    The annual Day of Service begins with a kickoff breakfast in Houston Hall.

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    Penn’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service

    Penn’s 30th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service and Symposium on Social Change will be held Jan. 20.

    Kristina García

    Forum addresses foreign policy priorities for the U.S.
    Three people sit in chairs on a stage in front of a Perry World House logo. The person in the middle is talking with a hand-held microphone.

    From left, Perry World House panelists Erin Sikorsky, Hussein Banai and Alexander Vershbow at a forum on foreign policy priorities for the incoming administration.

    (Image: Gabrielle Szczepanek)

    Forum addresses foreign policy priorities for the U.S.

    Experts offered predictions and insights for leaders in the incoming administration at a Perry World House forum.
    Two Penn alumni named 2025-26 Schwarzman Scholars
    Chuanyuan (Suzanne) Liu and Habib Salim standing outside dressed in graduation gowns.

    Two members of Penn’s Class of 2023, (from left) Chuanyuan (Suzanne) Liu and Habib Salim, have been named 2025-26 Schwarzman Scholars.

    (Images: Courtesy of Chuanyuan (Suzanne) Liu and Habib Salim)

    Two Penn alumni named 2025-26 Schwarzman Scholars

    Two members of the Class of 2023, Chuanyuan (Suzanne) Liu and Habib Salim, have each received Schwarzman Scholarship funding for a one-year master’s degree in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
    The future of nursing care
    Medical concept of a doctor checking a patient’s heartbeat virtually.

    Illustration: Mary Haasdyk Vooys

    The future of nursing care

    Faculty at Penn’s School of Nursing have created a clinical decision support early warning system that accurately detects patient deterioration.

    From Penn Nursing News

    Fruit fly development offers insights into condensed matter physics
    A fruit fly sits on a piece of food

    Drosophila melanogaster, the fruit fly, has long been a model species for biologists seeking to understand the molecular mechanisms of animal function and how novelty may arise in organisms. Theoretical physicist Andrea Liu of the School of Arts & Sciences is conducting research on the insect, along with biology and experimental biophysics collaborators at Duke University. Their research has opened the door to an approach that could offer not only a new understanding of how biological function emerges but also suggest a new class of systems in condensed matter physics.

    (Image: iStock / nechaev-kon)

    Fruit fly development offers insights into condensed matter physics

    Penn Physicist Andrea Liu and collaborators modeled the behavior of tissue during a stage of fly development and found, surprisingly, it doesn’t fluidize as it shrinks but stays solid. Their approach could offer insights physical systems with complex functionality.